When Liszt had first crossed into this world, the Sapphire Grand Duchy's seafaring technology was at the forefront, having only just reached the age of square sails.
Later, Liszt introduced fore-and-aft sails, and hybrid-powered sailing ships became the Flame Kingdom's main force at sea. Maritime trade throughout the Flame Archipelago, as well as every Pioneer Order war, relied on hybrid-powered sailing ships. Even fishing boats heading out to sea used a combination of square sails and fore-and-aft sails.
Yet no matter how advanced hybrid-powered sailing ships were, they could not escape the limitations of sailing vessels. They had to rely on wind power.
Thus, he had always had the arcanists of the Royal Arcane Academy research steam engines that could be driven by boiling water. But steam engines involved the construction of many mechanical components, not something that could be accomplished overnight. Moreover, the arcanists here were not particularly sensitive to purely mechanical creations.
As a result, steam engines had remained difficult births. Even when they managed to make a few models, they looked little more than toys.
Even if Liszt told the arcanists that the power of boiling water held limitless potential, they would not understand—no matter how powerful boiling water was, could it surpass magic? Could it surpass dragons?
Inut Zhenli, the arcanist once named by a Smoke mission, had been the first to combine square sails and fore-and-aft sails, developing the new generation of hybrid-powered sailing ships. His attitude toward steam engines was no different from that of ordinary arcanists; he too trusted magic more.
Therefore, rather than developing steamships, he followed the line of thought Liszt had suggested and researched another kind of vessel—magic-powered ships.
Before him, Gandalf Truth had invented the Magic-Powered Two-Wheeled Bicycle and appeared on the cover of Grand Arcanist.
Inspired by this,